Twin Dragon Nails - with Narmai Piggieluv!

Happiest of Sunday's to you all!  Today I've got a super duper, very special, and very AWESOME post for you!!

A week or so ago I contacted Narmai Piggieluv about doing a twin nail design - of a dragon!  To my absolute delight, she agreed! ^_^  This was our reference image that she suggested:

Here is a sketch Narmai found - NOT an image I own

And...here is a collage of our designs together!

When she revealed her design to me, I was absolutely blown away!!  She has always had such an incredible talent for fitting all that detail onto such tiny canvases - and let's face it, that is one darn adorable dragon!!!  I want to take it home ^_^

I decided to do a zoomed-in version for my design, because I'm not so good with putting in detail THAT tiny, and it also didn't help that my cat took off with my teeny tiny paintbrush that I use for teeny tiny details :(  I also decided not to put too much detail into color, because I really liked the grayscale look.  The only color I added was a light blue to the wings, light touches of it to the scales on the neck, and to the face.  For the background color I used "Auriga" by Different Dimension.  Here are a few more photos of my design:

Of course I posed with one of my dragon eggs! ^_^

Doing this twin design was a big deal for me, not just because it was a fun design, but because it was with Narmai.  Gonna gush here for a minute - Narmai's actually the one that got me into freehand nail art to begin with, and it ironically all started with an old dragon design of hers that she showed me last year ahead of everyone else simply because she was excited, and saw that I was excited to see what she'd be posting the next day.  That was really cool, to me, that she shared her art with me before everyone else :)  She also gave me some tips on using acrylic, and assured me regular topcoat would NOT smudge the paint :P  I owe so much of what I do with my art to Narmai giving me that nudge!!  I don't think she'll ever understand how much I really appreciate her as an artist, and as a friend ^_^  So his was most definitely a huge honor for me <3

Hope you all enjoyed our art!!!  What do you think of our dragons? :D

Polish Post: Different Dimension Gloss48 Exclusive Duo Swatches & Review

I know in yesterday's post I told you that today I would show you some new-to-me indies.  Well, I decided to instead show you some new indies, but from a brand I am familiar with, and actually featured a very long time ago when I first started blogging - my how far I've come! :P

Anywho, the brand I'm featuring today is Different Dimension.  I will be showing you the Gloss48 exclusive duo "River Charles" and "Boston Bean Latte."  Check them out below!

River Charles - Direct Sunlight

Indirect Sunlight

Boston Bean Latte - Direct Sunlight

Indirect Sunlight

Both polishes had a very smooth and even application, and only took 2 coats to make each completely opaque.  The polish also dried in under five minutes to a nice shiny finish, though I did add a topcoat in the photos above.  One thing I want to mention also is that it was really easy to clean the polish off the skin around my nail.  A lot of times, if a polish misses and gets my skin, if I try to scrape it off with a nail file or orange stick, the color drags and stains.  That is not the case here - the polish comes up very easily with little to no staining.  It's pretty awesome!!

The colors of each are also astounding!  I did not expect that holographic effect to be so intense on both polishes once I stepped into the sunlight!  It was pretty spectacular :)

Sadly these two polishes are not showing as available on the Gloss48 website anymore.  However, Different Dimension has a lot of other beautiful polishes to peruse and snag!  Here are some social links to help you do that:

Store Site: Here

Facebook: Here

Instagram: Here

Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!  Tomorrow I will have the *sniff* last Princess/Villain set from the Ice Polish "Dreams Do Come True...Not If I Can Help It!" collection.  See you soon <3

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